Every once in a while, the idea pops up again: why not use all the world's cell phones for parallel and/or distributed computations? There's gazillions of these phones - think of the computing power! After all, an army of ants can...
A Pew Research survey on 2,462 teachers indicates that 73% of their students use mobile devices to complete assignments, 45% use e-readers, and 43% use tablets. Technology in the classroom is not a future trend, it is al...
When I was a student in elementary school, we had desks, teachers, and blackboards (not even whiteboards!). My interaction with technology in the classroom was limited to an exciting experience playing Oregon Trail, a software ga...
Today, marks an important milestone in the history of routing, as Cisco introduces ISR-AX (Integration Services Router Generation 2 with Application Experience) and redefines the role of the router as the application delivery plat...
For much of Wi-Fi's history, technologists and mobile industry executives viewed it as the "poor cousin" to licensed mobile communications. Today, all that is changing with the explosive demand for mobile data, the proliferation o...
Mobile workers accessing corporate applications and data from a range of personal and corporate devices is fast becoming the new normal. Month by month every survey confirms the inevitable-mixing personal and business data, device...
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in early March, I had the opportunity to meet with leading mobile operators from several countries, small and large, and the focus of each discussion was remarkably consistent -how can mob...
On March 8, NBCNews.com reported that the unemployment rate among post-9/11 U.S. military veterans was 9.4 percent in February, well above the national unemployment average of 7.7 percent. Nearly 1 in 10 ex-service members who ser...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Cisco's Dominick Delfino (@domdelfino)andVCE's Trey Layton (@treylayton) takeona number of announcements from VCE, and trending in the data center space. Roll the tape: ...
"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine." In the spirit of Robert C. Gallagher's famous quote-and in our quest to never be a vending machine-we've rolled out several updates to Cisco's Security Intelligence Operations ...
Education leaders and innovators around the world are transforming education today. Please join us on March 19th (Americas and EMEA) or March 20 (Asia Pacific), for the Cisco Virtual Forum for Education Leaders, to see how they ar...
When it comes to the adoption of new technology such as 802.11ac, the industry becomes a farmer's almanac of predictions when it comes to when and what devices and products will announce 802.11ac support. Aside from Cisco, w...